315 pages ; 23 cm

"The articles in this volume originally appeared in Critical inquiry"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Feminist criticism inthe wilderness / Elaine Showalter -- The question of language: men of maxims and the Mill on the Floss / Mary Jacobus -- Eliot, Wordsworth, and the scenes of the sisters' instruction / Margaret Homans -- "The blank page" and the issues of female creativity / Susan Gubar -- Diana described: scattered woman and scattered rhyme / Nancy J. Vickers -- Magi and maidens: the romance of the Victorian Freud / Nina Auerbach -- Travesties of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousae / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Turning the lens on "The Panther Captivity": a feminist exercise in practical criticism / Annette Kolodny -- On female identity and writing by women / Judith Kegan Gardiner -- Costumes of the mind: transvestism as metaphor in modern literature / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Gertrude Stein, the Cone sisters, and the puzzle of female friendship / Carolyn Burke-- Zero degree deviancy: the lesbian novel in English / Catharine R. Stimpson -- "Draupadi" by Mahasveta Devi / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Critical response. Writing and Sexual Difference; the difference within / Jane Gallop -- A response to Writing and Sexual Difference / Carolyn G. Heilbrun -- Feminist(s) reading: a response to Elaine Showalter / Carloyn J. Allen -- Reply to Carolyn J. Allen / Elaine Showalter

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